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The Velvet Queen
I’ve been interested in reading Pensées by Blaise Pascal for some time and came across a used copy of the book a few years ago.
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The Sea Monster
In his book Albert and the Whale, Philip Hoare describes The Rhinoceros in the following manner:
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Here Be Dragons
We are fully informed of the ill-fated journey by sea from Lisbon to Porto Venere by the Portuguese historian, Abel Fontoura da Costa, in his…
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Young Hare
A couple years ago a friend of mine sent me the book Changing Our Minds by S.
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Adam and Eve, continued
Dürer’s representation of Adam and Eve shows us that he is a student of antiquity.
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Adam and Eve
In January, I made an appointment with the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight
In iconography, fidelity to tradition is more important than the assertion of the artist’s will.
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Imprinting the Divine
This past spring I visited The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas with my family.
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Hail, Mary
In the year 1490, Dürer made a portrait of his parents entitled Dürer’s Parents with Rosaries. Painted on two separate panels, this image depicts both…
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The Bulwarks of Belief, continued
An enchanted world is a spiritually charged world.
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